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The National Football League (NFL)'s New York Jets began play in 1960 as the Titans of New York, a charter member of the American Football League (AFL). When the Titans became the Jets in 1963 the team colors changed from navy blue and gold to green and white, which they have remained ever since, although the franchise has used different shades of green and has at times used black as a third/trim color.
For most of their history, the Jets had white helmets with green striping and logos, green and white jerseys with opposite-colored sleeves and shoulder stripes, and white pants with two green stripes down each side. Their first logo was a green cartoon jet plane with the word "JETS" in thick white sans-serif italics along the fuselage, then the team adopted a football-shaped logo with outlined "NY" initials behind the "JETS" wordmark and a miniature football at bottom center, first in white with a green outline and details, then in green with white details.
The team switched to green helmets and a simpler uniform design in 1978, replacing the football-shaped logo with a modernized wordmark, then in 1990 added black trim and green pants. In 1998 the team reverted to its "classic" look, with an updated version of the prior logo, and replaced the traditional kelly green with a darker hunter green. A 2019 redesign saw the team revert to green helmets and reincorporate black into the color scheme, along with a new medium shade of green that the franchise called "Gotham Green," modified primary and secondary logos, tapered striping on the jerseys and pants, a new sans-serif numeral font, a chest wordmark, and for the first time in team history, a black alternate uniform.
In 2024 the Jets introduced new uniforms based on their 1978–89 design, carrying over the "Gotham Green" shade (renaming it "Legacy Green") and metallic-finish helmet shells. The primary uniform consists of green and white jerseys and pants with contrasting numerals, stripes, and collars; the jerseys have two horizontal parallel stripes on the sleeves, while the pants have a single vertical stripe on each side, and are worn with green or white socks. The helmets have white facemasks and a modified version of the 1978–89 wordmark logo on each side, consisting of the word "JETS" in stylized italic lettering with a silhouette of a generic modern jet airplane extending horizontally to the right from the top of the "J" above the other letters. With this redesign the Jets again become the only team in the NFL whose primary uniform consists of only two colors. The team also has a black alternate uniform with white numerals outlined in green, green stripes and collars, black socks, and a matte-black alternate helmet with a metallic-green facemask and the primary wordmark in green outlined in white; and a "Classic" alternate uniform combining elements of the 1963-77 and 1998-2018 designs.